Hello and welcome to my daily blog. So I watched a TV programme called Scam Interceptors and this poor woman was almost scammed, losing £5,000. It is terrible and it nearly happened to me when I got an email posing as PayPal.
It is heart wrenching.
Your bank will never call you and so I hang up when I can smell a scam and block anything that I feel is a scam and delete the number. Often it is a mobile number. I get people contacting me on messenger about my Youtube channel and making out they are content creators, wanting to help me boost my Youtube channel and when I smell a rat I instantly block them.
Trust your gut instinct.
Then there are text messages saying that your family member is somewhere and need some money sent to them.
Call that person instantly.
There have been Youtube channels hacked, by people posing as them and making out that they are running a competition. Alert the person by messaging them about their channel, as hackers and scammers tend to work together to steal your details to commit fraud and now we have AI scammers are using someone identity as if they are them to scam.
Have I been involved in a car accident when I don't even drive?
I not knowing was selling Satellite warranties for what OI thought was a digital company. It was warranties for digital boxes when actually they didn't need them and glad I found out that it was all nonsense, as they expected you to work for nothing. To begin with I firstly started off in their house and then into a old building and so glad that I found out that they were taking money from people on something that they didn't need to buy. They were on watched dog, as it wasn't just them but other organisations telling people they needed a Satellite warranty.
I was so unaware and it did puzzle me and found it via an advertisement in the newspaper and they seemed genuine. The people seemed friendly and they even asked me to do some Admin work. I still had no idea.
When on holiday in Tenerife I was on my Honeymoon was scammed by a Timeshare company.
Binary Trading. Getting a call making out I had a Amazon delivery when I hadn't ordered anything and that's the thing about Scammers,
They Will Try Anything to Steal someone's hard earned cash and it is disgusting.
It is good that there are programmes exposing scammers, helping to stop them and help with protecting people, from having their details being used to destroy a person and take what isn't their's.
Call centers being set up to scam and they can appear as honest citizens when they are not.
So be vigilant and block, block and block.
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
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